Centuries: | 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |
Decades: | 1450s 1460s 1470s - 1480s - 1490s 1500s 1510s
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Years: | 1481 1482 1483 - 1484 - 1485 1486 1487 |
1484 in topic: |
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
Art – Literature – Music – Science |
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1484 was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar).
Events of 1484[]
- March 26 - William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, printed his translation of Aesop's Fables.
- July 6 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of Congo River
- July 22 - Battle of Lochmaben Fair - A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart and James Douglas defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas captured.
- August 29 - Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV as the 213th pope.
- September 15 - Peter Arbues, is assassinated while praying in the cathedral at Saragossa, Spain and he died on September 17. He had been appointed Inquisitor of Aragon by the Inquisitor General, Tomás de Torquemada, in the campaign against heresy and crypto-Judaism.
- December 5 - Pope Innocent VIII gives the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and witches in Germany with the lead of Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger
- The first sugar mill becomes operational in the Gran Canaria
- First cuirassier units (kyrissers) formed in Austria
Gregorian calendar | 1484 MCDLXXXIV
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Ab urbe condita | 2237 |
Armenian calendar | 933 ԹՎ ՋԼԳ |
Bahá'í calendar | -360 – -359 |
Buddhist calendar | 2028 |
Coptic calendar | 1200 – 1201 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1476 – 1477 |
Hebrew calendar | 5244 – 5245 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1539 – 1540 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1406 – 1407 |
- Kali Yuga | 4585 – 4586 |
Holocene calendar | 11484 |
Iranian calendar | 862 – 863 |
Islamic calendar | 888 – 889 |
Japanese calendar | Bunmei
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- Imperial Year | Kōki 2144 (皇紀2144年) |
Julian calendar | 1529 |
Korean calendar | 3817 |
Thai solar calendar | 2027 |
Births[]
- January 1 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss religious reformer (died 1531)
- January 17 - George Spalatin, German religious reformer (died 1545)
- February 21 - Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg (died 1535)
- March 4 - George (died 1543)
- April 12 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (died 1546)
- April 23 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian humanist scholar (died 1558)
- August 24 - Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish bishop in Mexico (died 1566)
- November 29 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist and reformer (died 1551)
- date unknown
- Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (died 1531)
Deaths[]
- March 4 - Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (born 1458)
- April 9 - Edward of Middleham (born c. 1473)
- July 11 - Mino da Fiesole, Italian sculptor (born c1429)
- August 12
- Pope Sixtus IV (born 1414)
- George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher (born 1395)
- October 2 - Isabel Plantagenet, descendant of Edward III of England
- December - Premislav of Tost, Silesian ruler (born 1425)
- date unknown
- William Sinclair (born 1410)
- Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (born 1432)
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People of the year 1484 at Familypedia
9 people were born in 1484
3 children were born to the 2 women born in 1484
21 people died in 1484
930 people lived in 1484
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13 people were married in 1484.
There were 0 military battles in 1484.